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Dad, can I get a yearbook?, asked my son. I thought back to when I was a teenager. Buying yearbook was very little about the pictures that were inside, and more about getting your friends to sign it. It was a kind of status symbol to fill up as … [Read more...] about Are School Yearbooks a Waste Of Money?
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